The parliamentary leader of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) has come under fire from his opposition colleagues after publicly insulting one of them during a session of the National Assembly last week.
A self-styled scholar who ran in Armenia’s recent presidential election went on trial on Tuesday on charges of organizing an apparent attempt on the life of another outsider candidate, Paruyr Hayrikian.
Observers from the Council of Europe were cautious on Monday in evaluating the weekend municipal elections in Yerevan, praising technical aspects of their conduct but reserving judgment on their freedom and fairness.
Polling centers across Yerevan opened early on Sunday for local elections that pitted President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) against Armenia’s other major political groups hoping to end its control over the municipal administration.
An Armenian police agency drawing up the national voter registry on Tuesday denied opposition allegations that thousands of provincial residents loyal to the ruling Republican Party (HHK) will be illegally allowed to vote in Sunday’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
A new opposition alliance led by Raffi Hovannisian criticized some of the other political groups challenging the ruling Republican Party (HHK) in the upcoming local elections in Yerevan and ruled out pre-election cooperation with them on Thursday.
A close associate of Raffi Hovannisian rounded on former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday for dismissing as unserious anti-government protests held by the fellow opposition leader after the recent presidential election.
The Armenian police warned on Monday that they will use force against opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian and his supporters if the latter march towards the presidential palace in Yerevan during President Serzh Sarkisian’s inauguration on Tuesday.
Very high voter turnout and huge margins of President Serzh Sarkisian’s victory registered by election bodies in many communities across Armenia are not an indication of fraud in last month’s presidential ballot, a senior pro-government lawmaker said on Monday.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Saturday questioned the credibility of official results of Armenia’s presidential election, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian benefited from “implausibly high” voter turnout recorded in many precincts.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian declared fellow opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian the rightful winner of Armenia’s presidential election but remained in no rush to join his campaign of anti-government protests on Saturday.
An Armenian presidential candidate who has been on a hunger strike for the past three weeks on Monday accused election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation Europe Monday of turning a blind eye to fraud.
Raffi Hovannisian, a leading opposition presidential candidate, on Friday threatened to declare the February 18 election illegitimate if President Serzh Sarkisian does not stop what he called serious irregularities.
An Armenian presidential candidate announced his withdrawal from the race and another one threatened to follow suit on Tuesday, expressing serious concern over the freedom and fairness of the February 18 election.
Armenia’s leading broadcasters have so far provided a largely unbiased news coverage of the intensifying presidential race, a local media watchdog said on Wednesday.
The Armenian government still hopes to prevent an increase in the price of natural gas imported from Russia, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian said on Thursday.
Most Armenians continue to believe that elections held in their country are not democratic, the state human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, said on Monday.
President Serzh Sarkisian reassured the European Union over the weekend that Armenia’s forthcoming presidential election, in which he will be seeking a second five-year term, will be free and fair.
Widespread poverty in Armenia has declined slightly in the last two years thanks to renewed economic growth, according to the government.
Hundreds of employees of Armenia’s largest chemical enterprise again took to the streets of Yerevan on Monday to demand payment of their back wages and a reactivation of their troubled plant.
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